Word: enterovirus
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...virus is relatively insensitive to heat, cold, chemicals and ultraviolet rays. No vaccine can be prepared because the disease perversely refuses to infect any animal but man. The hepatitis bug's small size and its frequent presence in fecal matter indicate that it may actually be an enterovirus -one of a group of particularly tiny viruses (including polio) that are found in the human intestinal tract. Says the PHS's Dr. Leon Rosen: "Isolating the hepatitis virus is the No. 1 unsolved problem of contemporary virology...
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